• Quick retrieval from earlier learning (Perfect tenses (past, present, future)). Students answer on mini whiteboards.
• Show answers together and note who needs support in the main task.

1. Choose the correct perfect tense. By the time we arrived, the film ___ (start). (has started / had started / will have started / starts) → had startedPrompt: Is the action finished before a past time, before now, or before a future time?
2. Choose the correct perfect tense. By next June, she ___ (finish) school. (finishes / has finished / will have finished / had finished) → will have finishedPrompt: Is the action finished before a past time, before now, or before a future time?
3. Choose the correct perfect tense. Scientists ___ (discover) a new kind of frog. (will have discovered / had discovered / have discovered / discovering) → have discoveredPrompt: Is the action finished before a past time, before now, or before a future time?

• Show a sentence with the grammar point used wrongly and ask what sounds odd.
• Share the objective: Active and passive voice. Read the success criteria together.

• Work through the example out loud, saying why you do each step, not just what you do.
• Example: Which sentence is the passive version of this sentence? The children have planted the trees. • The trees has been planted by the children. • The trees have planted the children. • The trees have been planted by the children. • The children have been planted by the trees.
• Step 1: Move the object to the front, use be + past participle in the same tense, and put the doer after 'by' (or leave it out).
• Step 2: So the answer is: The trees have been planted by the children.
• Answer: The trees have been planted by the children.
• Pause after each step and ask a student to say what comes next.

• Do these together. Students try each step on whiteboards before you reveal it.
• Use the hints as prompts rather than giving the answer.

1. Which sentence is the passive version of this sentence? The children have planted the trees. • The children have been planted by the trees. • The trees have planted the children. • The trees have been planted by the children. • The trees has been planted by the children. (The children have been planted by the trees. / The trees have planted the children. / The trees have been planted by the children. / The trees has been planted by the children.) → The trees have been planted by the children.Prompt: In a passive sentence, the thing the action is done TO becomes the subject.
2. Is this sentence active or passive? Scientists discovered a new species of beetle. (active / passive) → activePrompt: Who or what is the subject? Is the subject DOING the action or RECEIVING it?

• Students work on the student sheet. Circulate and check the first two answers of every student early.
• Students who finish: write a question of their own for a partner, with the answer.

The 6 questions are on the student sheet below, with answers in the key.

• Two questions on their own. Sort answers into got it / nearly / not yet to plan the next lesson.

1. Which sentence is the passive version of this sentence? Maya wrote the poem. • Maya was written by the poem. • The poem was wrote by Maya. • The poem wrote Maya. • The poem was written by Maya. (Maya was written by the poem. / The poem was wrote by Maya. / The poem wrote Maya. / The poem was written by Maya.) → The poem was written by Maya.Prompt: In a passive sentence, the thing the action is done TO becomes the subject.
2. Is this sentence active or passive? The mayor opened the new bridge. (active / passive) → activePrompt: Who or what is the subject? Is the subject DOING the action or RECEIVING it?

Free online practice with hints and printable worksheets for this skill: eurekami.com/english/grade-6.